The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5John & Arthur Arch ... and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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... stand against the thund'rer's aim , Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? where there is then no good For which to ftrive , no ftrife can grow up there From faction ; for none fure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
... stand against the thund'rer's aim , Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? where there is then no good For which to ftrive , no ftrife can grow up there From faction ; for none fure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
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... Stand in his prefence humble , and receive Strict laws impos'd to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead fing Forc'd hallelujahs ; while he lordly fits Our envied Sov'reign , and his altar breathes Ambrofial odors ...
... Stand in his prefence humble , and receive Strict laws impos'd to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead fing Forc'd hallelujahs ; while he lordly fits Our envied Sov'reign , and his altar breathes Ambrofial odors ...
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... stand His rivals , winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge muft earn . Dreaded not more th ' adventure than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rofe ; Their rifing all at once was as the found Of thunder ...
... stand His rivals , winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge muft earn . Dreaded not more th ' adventure than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rofe ; Their rifing all at once was as the found Of thunder ...
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... stand On even ground against his mortal foe , By me upheld , that he may know how frail His fallen condition is , and to me owe All his deliverance ; and to none but me . Some I have chofen of peculiar grace Ele & above the reft ; fo.is ...
... stand On even ground against his mortal foe , By me upheld , that he may know how frail His fallen condition is , and to me owe All his deliverance ; and to none but me . Some I have chofen of peculiar grace Ele & above the reft ; fo.is ...
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... Stand ready at command , and are his eyes That run through all the heav'ns , of down to the earth Bear his fwift errands , over moist and dry , O'er fea and land : him Satan thus accofts , Uriel ! for thou of those fev'n spirits that stand ...
... Stand ready at command , and are his eyes That run through all the heav'ns , of down to the earth Bear his fwift errands , over moist and dry , O'er fea and land : him Satan thus accofts , Uriel ! for thou of those fev'n spirits that stand ...
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